BOOKS

Leadership for Development: What Globalization Demands of Leaders Fighting for Change
Dennis A. Rondinelli and John M. Heffron

Leadership for Development examines fundamental issues: the tools leaders use to achieve development goals; how culture and interdependence among governments and organizations affects    More >

Learning for Living: Towards a New Vision for Post-School Learning in South Africa
Ivor Baatjes, editor

In the context of South Africa's deepening inequalities, widespread poverty, and increasing unemployment rates, the need for a new approach to adult education is becoming urgent.    More >

Learning to Live with Statistics: From Concept to Practice
David Asquith

Is it possible to demystify statistics? Can math phobia be overcome? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is yes. Learning to Live with Statistics, based on years of teaching experience,    More >

Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards: Door Locks of the Bamana of Mali
Pascal James Imperato, with an foreword by Robert J. Koenig

The Bamana people are known for their rich artistic traditions, including the creation of masks, statues, door locks, headdresses, and ritual and utilitarian objects: Their door locks are    More >

Legislative Politics in the Arab World:  The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions
Abdo Baaklini, Guilain Denoeux, and Robert Springborg

The vitality and significance of parliaments in the Arab world is one of the essential—but overlooked—stories of political life in the 1990s. Baaklini, Denoeux, and Springborg    More >

Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies
Joel D. Barkan, editor

A puzzle underpins this groundbreaking study of legislative development in Africa: Why are variations in the extent of legislative authority and performance across the continent only    More >

Legislative Women: Getting Elected, Getting Ahead
Beth Reingold, editor

This wide-ranging study grapples with the increasingly complex array of opportunities and challenges that face women today as both legislative candidates and elected officials. Offering    More >

Legislatures and the New Democracies in Latin America
David Close, editor

Legislatures are indispensable parts of constitutional liberal democracies, controlling and criticizing the executive while voicing a wide range of opinions on public issues. This book    More >

Lenin
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, translated by George Holoch

Vladimir Ilitch Lenin, who died in 1924 at the age of fifty-four, went through two distinct periods in his life. He spent twenty years in exile dreaming of the revolution and creating his    More >

Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine: Security Strategies for the Nordic-Baltic Five
Otto Tabuns and Olevs Nikers

In the context of Russia's war against Ukraine, the authors present crucial strategies for improving security in five NATO eastern flank states: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and    More >

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